โ Scribed by Jenny Diski
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**The only story collection from the beloved Jenny Diski --darkly funny, subversive, sexy, and eccentric tales from one of the most original and intelligent voices of our time
"Mordant and talon-sharp." --Dwight Garner, New York Times, on Jenny Diski
Description
Jenny Diski's prose is as sharp and steely as her imagination is wild and wondrous. When she died of cancer in April 2016, after chronicling her illness in strikingly honest essays in the London Review of Books, readers, admirers, and critics around the world mourned the loss. In a cool and unflinching tone that came to define her singular voice, she explored the subjects of sex, power, domesticity, femininity, hysteria, and loneliness with humor and honesty,
The stories in The Vanishing Princess showcase a rarely seen side of this beloved writer, channeling both the piercing social examination of her nonfiction and...
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